: June, 2011

What’s more, the Securities and Exchange Commission is a little peeved that two advertising executives were making those sorts of promises online in an attempt to raise capital to buy the beer company.

“Michael Migliozzi II of California and Brian William Flatow of Connecticut, agreed Wednesday to cease and desist from running a web site that solicited pledges from PBR drinkers to supposedly buy the Pabst brewery,” SEC officials said in a prepared statement.

Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Mo., recently tried a new a “cicada flavor,” whipped up with the little insects that employees collected from their backyards. “The cicadas are fully cooked through boiling, then covered in brown sugar and milk chocolate. The base ice cream is a brown sugar and butter flavor,” according to a report in the Columbian Missourian.

At least, that’s what it looks like via NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which captured the massive solar flare as a fiery wave splashing across the sun’s surface.

Scientists have “never seen anything like it,” according to experts at the Goddard Spaceflight Center. (See the video below for more of their insights.) Even so, the coronal mass ejection was classified as a medium-sized, minor radiation storm.

Apple’s Steve Jobs showed up at a meeting of the Cupertino City Council in California on Tuesday — and I think it’s safe to say this is the most excitement Cupertino’s city hall has seen in a while.

Jobs was unveiling his plan for a new Apple campus, featuring a massive doughnut-like building that can house up to 12,000 employees. (About half as many as the Pentagon.) He described the building as looking “a little like a spaceship landed.”

Jobs shows the new campus about five minutes into this video from the Cupertino City Council.

Either a whole lot of people believe in God, or a whole lot of people lie when surveyed.

A Gallup poll released this month indicates a whopping 92 percent of Americans say they believe in God. That’s only slightly down from 96 percent in the 1940s, when the good folks at Gallup first asked the question.

The breakdown varies slightly be gender, with 90 percent of men betting on the existence of some kind of deity, compared to 94 percent of women. The only variation between age groups happens in the 18-to-29 set, where only 84 percent say they believe in god.

But thousands die ever year from eating mushrooms that shouldn’t be anywhere near your plate — let alone your mouth.

A Washington State University professor recently tackled the issue of poisonous mushrooms in an essay, pointing out that many deaths and mushroom-related illnesses could be avoided if people would stick to one simple rule.

When you’re getting drunk in the woods, don’t eat things you find growing on the ground.